Archive for November, 2011
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Electric DeLorean Available In 2013
Good news, Back to the Future fans! An electric version of the DeLorean will be available for purchase in 2013, as announced by the DeLorean Motor Company of Texas. The all-electric DeLorean debuted at the DMC Texas Open House event on October 14 2011. The vehicle will have a 400 volt AC induction liquid-cooled electric motor, 260 horsepower a top speed of 125 mph and a ...
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Aeroshot: The Caffeine Inhaler
You’ve heard of inhalers for asthma patients? Well, now there’s an inhaler for caffeine addicts. The Aeroshot was invented by David Edwards, a creator, writer and professor at Harvard University. Aeroshot delivers an airborne shot of instant energy – a quick and easy fix of caffeine that is ready for consumption any time and any place. To ingest the contents, users simply pull open the green ...
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Sticky Note Wrist Watch
Forget the old elastic band around the wrist to remind yourself to pick up the dry-cleaning, the Post-it Note watch is way more fun! Designed by Dorian Favre, the note is made to form a circle and be worn around the wrist like a watch. They are available for purchase through a small boutique in Paris called PA Design. BUY NOW MORE: TETRIS STICKY NOTES $900,000.00 ...
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Hyper Realistic Human Sculptures
Evan Penny is a Toronto-based artist that creates hyper realistic sculptures of people. Although Penny generally produces head-and-shoulders busts that are larger than life in size, his incredible attention to detail can easel fool viewers into thinking the subject matter is real – especially in photographs. Penny implants each hair one strand at a time and includes natural blemishes, age sports and wrinkles on the faces ...
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Video Game Soaps From Clean Geeks
DigitalSoaps founder Chrystal Doucette invented soap shaped like video game controllers and other electronics on a whim. Her soap is the first to communicate with subcultures of gamers and geeks. At the time, nothing like it existed on the market. Every single game controller design you see in their store was the first in existence. DigitalSoaps’ first video game-themed soap, a PlayStation 2 replica controller, received ...
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Kittywood Studios: Cat Videos Incorporated
Kittywood Studios: Cat Videos Incorporated was made by Joe Nicolosi from Austin, TX. Joe is a director and freelancer and creator of Star Wars: Retold, Kittywood, CSI Legoland, and Indie Mario Trailer.
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Hedonist: A Stunning Luxury Yacht
Designed by Art of Kinetik, the Hedonist luxury yacht earns its title from the super sexy design lines that are paired with luxury finishes and materials that only the perfectly hedonistic can indulge in and enjoy guilt-free. Art of Kintetik designs custom luxury yachts out of wood – they are known for their incredible good taste and selection of high-quality finishes. The Hedonist Yacht combined a ...
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If Super Heroes Were Hipsters
Fabian Ciraolo is an illustrator from Santiago, Chile. His work is mesmerizing, witty and riddled with parody, which is exactly why we love it. Ciralolo’s collection of super heros and villains dressed up as hipsters are a big hit. The colourful and textured backgrounds are reminiscent of 70s psychedelic imagery in terms of luminosity and colourfield, but also have a hint of 80s flare to them ...
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Modern Luxury Bed Design
HiCan is a company that designs one of the most exciting luxury beds on the market. The company name, HiCan, is a hybrid of the terms High Fidelity Canopy, and boats an intriguing slogan of “Enjoy your Bed Like Never Before”. The bed has an abundance of bells and whistles – there is really no reason to get out of bed in the morning if you’re ...
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Fake Window Blinds
If you live in a small, dark, hole of an apartment, you’re in luck! Makoto Hirahara’s Bright Blind simulates a window where none exists. The unit is made of electroluminescent sheets (EL), wood and plastic, and is sure to brighten the room and one’s spirits too. The artificial blind functions just like a “real” set of louvered blinds – you can turn the plastic stick to ...
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Gothic Typeface Made Out Of Bacon Strips
One of our favourite mixed media artists, Henry Hargreaves, has created and photographed the entire alphabet made out of raw bacon strips rendering in Old English Font with prop stylist, Sarah Guido. Guido and Hargreaves completed the photoshoot over the course of two afternoons. 15 pounds of bacon was used (harmed) for the project. Hargreaves began his career in the arts as a model in front ...
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Huge Sculptures Made From Lottery Tickets
New York-based artist duo Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom (known as artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream) collect discarded lottery tickets and use them to create large-scale sculptural works of art. The artists originally started collecting lottery tickets they found on the ground, but eventually asked corner store clerks and lottery ticket vendors to hold onto the unwanted losing tickets until the duo’s collection was substantial ...
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How IKEA Would Build Stonehenge
British writer, Justin Pollard, collaborated with Stevyn Colgan and John Lloyd to design a hilarious infographic inspired by IKEA’s how-to-build graphic instructions. The infographic is entitled “Henj”, and depicts the steps one would take in order to build the infamous Stone Henge in Wiltshire, Britain. Keeping true to original IKEA infographics characteristics, the imagery is black and white, the title of the furniture (or in this ...
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Famous Photos Recreated With Lego
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Tiananmen Square Behind the Gare Saint Lazare Tennis Girl Falling Soldier Bed-In Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Moon Landing Horse in Motion ” “” Photography Mike Stimpson claims he likes to play with toys, and light – we can tell he isn’t lying from the photos he took of lego men (and lego ladies) recreating famous photographs. We love the photos ...
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Ecco: Electric Mobile Camper Van Of The Future
Design collective NAU has released a concept that looks to combine outdoor adventure with green technology with a new electric vehicle idea called the Ecco. A mobile camper that doubles as an all-electric car, the Ecco is one of the smarter concepts we’ve seen lately. The Ecco’s idea of space-saving is a lot like a mico-home and car combination we recently featured, but keeps in mind ...
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Mark Wahlberg Surrounded By Boobs
Mark Wahlberg photographed by David LaChapelle. David LaChapelle, born March 11, 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut, is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style. LaChapelle’s work has been described as surrealist, grotesque, shocking and ironic. Ingrid Sischy, long-time editor of Interview magazine, has said there are ...
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Wifi-Enabled Weight Scale
The Withings Body Scale may look like an ordinary set of scales, but it has one notable exception . . . it is Wifi-enabled. This means that your Withings Body Scale ‘talks’ to your computer (PC or Apple Mac), iPhone or iPad, sending your daily body measurements, which you can review via a web browser. This ‘web dashboard’, provided by Withings, calculates your latest body measurements ...
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‘Smells Like Bacon’ Alarm Clock
Those of you who despise the painful buzzing of your alarm clock that aims to smach you out of sweet slumber, listen up! Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, Hsiao-huh Hsu and Josh Myer have developed an alarm clock called the Wake-n-Bacon that gently wakes you up by emitting the irresistible scent of bacon, and then, as you rub your sleepy eyes awake, you can roll out of ...
